Nature shows have gotten really uhm, Down to Nature lately. I hadn’t watched any for a bit and then got back into it and I dunno if they just stopped trying to Disney it up or they are really proud of the high-def cameras they have now but dude! I watched a show recently about elephants and they were talking about how they use termite mounds to scrape parasites off and there was a high-def scene of a close up of an elephant butt covered in ticks.

Eyew! I think it’s the high definition. They were not too Disney-like when I was a kid. You could get a pretty graphic sex education watching some mating scene, and I have to scan even the older ones for gory hunting scenes when my kid was younger.

Cloaca is a birds exit only organ not just for urea but for excrement and eggs. Twould be like calling a mammal specifically human a “smegma encrusted vag.” or an incontinent urethra. An Ovipositor is what an insect uses to inseminate. For fish it would be a gonapodium for humans it would be a penis… Basically genitalia humor… Didn’t they teach this stuff in science class.

I feel like this was required for Te Fahn’s sake than to affect Giselle’s behaviour. If Te Fahn hadn’t seen immediate response against that sort of behaviour, she might have internalized it as acceptable, and be less likely to stand up for herself later on.

Naw, it was appropriate given there were other kids involved. Giselle was kind of being made into an example there. Usually that’s not a good thing, but in this case it had to be nipped in the bud for Te Fahn’s sake. If Mina is like some wonderful teachers I know, she’ll take time to talk with both girls privately to follow up.

Teacher myself here: what Mina did was the right course of action. It wasn’t critisizing her, it is Mina reminding the kids that bullying is not tolerated and will have consquences. She handled it immediately and made sure the entire class knew that this kind of behaviour won’t fly.

I knew Mina would get involved. <3 Also Giselle reminds me of the Marvin books when I was a kid. A former bully legitimately has trouble not calling kids in his class by mean nicknames (they just slip out) and feels bad about it because he’s trying to be better.

Good for Selkie trying to teach Te Fahn to stand up for herself, and good for Te Fahn trying to show Selkie there are many ways to do it beyond “eye for an eye.” Love how different their personalities are, yet how they are already becoming friends.